[AT] Disastrous weather...

charlie hill chill8 at suddenlink.net
Thu Jun 5 05:14:46 PDT 2008


Thanks Mattias, I'll check it out.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mattias Kessén" <davidbrown950 at gmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Disastrous weather...


> Charlie and the bunch, If you follow that link and go to Sweden you
> will see an old picture of Valdemarsvik the closest "town" to where I
> live.
>
> Mattias
>
> 2008/6/4 charlie hill <chill8 at suddenlink.net>:
>> Farmer, here is a link to a discussion about your bridge over on
>> AllisChalmers.com.
>>
>> http://www.allischalmers.com/forum/forum_view.asp?mid=767558&mtop=967558&mtext1=&morder=pdate&page=1&mnext=-1
>>
>> Charlie
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 1:57 AM
>> Subject: [AT] Disastrous weather...
>>
>>
>>> As I type this it is about 45 minutes past midnight.
>>> A couple of hours ago Central Indiana was awash with
>>> weather alerts and from what I could tell from the TV
>>> news at one point there may have been as many as 8 or
>>> more tornadoes active. There were also some severe
>>> straight line winds. The weather service reported 3500
>>> lighting strikes in a very short time in just one
>>> small storm cell north west of here. Our farm was
>>> spared even though some of the tornado activity
>>> (moving west to east) was first spotted from a tiny
>>> village (Prescott IN) less than 2 miles east of us. We
>>> heard the city's (Shelbyville IN) tornado siren and
>>> started monitoring the weather. One of our daughters
>>> lives in a small town (Waldron IN) about 6 miles south
>>> east of us. The last we heard from her they were
>>> headed to the basement. The power and phone lines are
>>> about all down there yet but we know that they are
>>> looking for shelter for about 11 families tonight due
>>> to home damage and lots of trees down. There are no
>>> reported injuries there.
>>> Now for the one that has me worried...
>>> We just rented a house in a small village (Moscow IN)
>>> in the the next county to a family with 5 kids. Our
>>> property there includes 17 acres that runs across the
>>> back of the village and on both sides of a very long
>>> covered bridge often claimed to be Indiana's longest
>>> covered bridge. Tonight the sheriff's dept. in that
>>> county tells me that the bridge is totally
>>> destroyed... Our rental house is only about 200' from
>>> the bridge. I'm very concerned about that family but
>>> could find out little. The authorities were doing a
>>> house to house when I talked to them and while there
>>> were 5 reported injuries in the community they said
>>> that only one from the village was sent to the
>>> hospital and she didn't believe that it was someone
>>> from our house. We also have very good long time
>>> friends that live only about 80' from the bridge and
>>> more that live a few hundred feet further away. The TV
>>> news folks were standing by and talking with people
>>> that had serious home damage outside of town but the
>>> news folks couldn't get into the town yet due to trees
>>> down and downed wires. About all I can do now is wait
>>> for daylight and hope that they found shelter if
>>> needed. I was going over there tomorrow anyway since I
>>> have been doing some work on the house. The bathroom
>>> hot water faucet was leaking and it was an older
>>> odd-ball sink and faucet set. I finally decided to buy
>>> a new sink top and faucet set that was current and
>>> just replace the whole thing. I bought them today but
>>> now I have to wait to see if there is anything left to
>>> attach it to... About all I could see in the news
>>> chopper footage was the church, a lot of flashing red
>>> and blue lights and a big industrial loader (probably
>>> from the stone quarry at the edge of town) pushing
>>> downed trees out of the way.
>>> The frustrating part now is not knowing if I am
>>> dealing with minor damage or total destruction of the
>>> house. If it is unlivable I will need to see if there
>>> is anything I can do to help them find a place to
>>> live... I know that we can scrape up a batch of
>>> clothes for the kids if needed and a number of other
>>> things but we won''t know about needs (or if they have
>>> any needs at all) until tomorrow morning.
>>> Most frustrating. ..
>>>
>>>
>>> You guys in Ohio better "duck and cover". The radar map is a mess...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>> "farmer"
>>>
>>>
>>> "Everything that can be invented has been invented."
>>>   -- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> Francis Robinson
>>> Central Indiana, USA
>>> robinson at svs.net
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